6/10/14

RETRO ReMake on Monday Monday

Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.

Yep, it was all I hoped it would be.

From the moment I found the glass pendant in a bag of jewelry to be re-purposed, I envisioned a 'WireArt' bail (hanger). It's original necklace strap was a black string...so not enough for this exquisite handblown piece with dichroic glass.

Dichroic
glass first appeared in a few pieces of Roman glass from the 4th century and consists of a translucent glass containing colloidal gold and silver particles dispersed in the glass matrix. In modern times a composite of non translucent micro layers of metals are produced in thin strips which fuses in...as the pendant...or to glass...as the beads.

It is a fun and creative process which I have had the opportunity to do in a jewelry making class. Which takes me back to the RETRO aspect of this post and Monday Monday. Yep, it's the 'Mama's and the Papa's' and 1966.